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- Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC) is a disease that makes people get infections from a fungus called Candida on their skin, nails, and inside their mouths.
- Most cases are caused by changes in a gene called STAT1 that makes the immune system not work right.
- The study talks about three patients who have CMC because of these changes in the STAT1 gene and examines their health issues and genetic details.
Article Abstract
Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC) is a heterogenous group of primary immunodeficiency diseases characterised by susceptibility to chronic or recurrent superficial Candida infection of skin, nails and mucous membranes. Gain-of-function mutations in the STAT1 gene (STAT1-GOF) are the most common genetic aetiology for CMC, and mutation analysis should be considered. These mutations lead to defective responses in Type 1 and Type 17 helper T cells (Th1 and Th17), which, depending on the mutation, also predispose to infection with Staphylococci, Mycobacteria and Herpesviridae. We describe the clinical and genetic findings for three patients with CMC due to gain-of-function mutations in the STAT1 gene.
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